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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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Satoshi Ogawa / Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondent WASHINGTON--Kurt Campbell, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, has canceled a planned visit Wednesday to Tokyo fo... |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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It's springtime in Japan and that means one thing. Actually, two things. Penis festivals and vagina festivals. It may sound like a sophomoric gag. But these are folk rites going back at least 1,500 ... |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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TOKYO — South Korea has told the Japanese government that it wants to postpone South Korean President Lee Myung Bak’s visit to Japan being planned for around April 10, diplomatic sources ... |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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TOKYO — The Japanese government has decided to remove a ban on loans by an affiliated development bank for infrastructure projects in industrial economies so that Japanese companies can better ... |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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FILE - In this Feb. 24, 1988 file photo, Michael Jackson performs during his 13-city U.S. tour in Kansas City, Mo. The estate of Michael Jackson has landed the late King of Pop the biggest recording d... |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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RAMALLAH — Palestinians and Israelis have different and possibly contradictory expectations from the indirect negotiations that the United States has pushed both sides into beginning. |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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But there was a notable exception this year. One tiny town won an Oscar almost all to itself and went into an angry sulk about it. The town is Taiji, a mere speck of 3,500 people in Wakayama Prefectur... |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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When giving talks on Japan in elementary school classrooms in the United States, I chalk the kanji 一, 二, and 三 on the blackboard and ask the children to guess their meanings. "One, two, three!" ... |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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Decades of international isolation did little to nudge many nuances into its foreign policy. Under Mao Zedong especially, China didn't so much as conduct secret diplomacy under the table as it simply ... |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) Long-ago lapped by Facebook in popularity and with fast-growing Twitter on its tail, social- networking site MySpace is planning a series of updates over the next months that will lin... |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Few economists predicted the current economic crisis, and there is little agreement among them about its ultimate causes. So, not surprisingly, economists are not in a good po... |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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NEW YORK (AP) An upcoming musical video game lets players strum a real six-string electric guitar instead of tapping buttons on a fake instrument. |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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To 3-D, or not 3-D: Despite the dearth of content to watch (Avatar and Alice in Wonderland aside), 3-D television is quickly rising to the top of the hype parade. Sony is determined to remain leader o... |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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Just six months have passed since the Sept. 16 inauguration of the Hatoyama administration. In his first policy speech, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama pledged to do his utmost to build a nation truly b... |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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Finance Minister Naoto Kan repeated a plea for the Bank of Japan to work with the government on reversing a decline in prices that threatens the economic recovery. |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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Time for a break: Canada's Joannie Rochette, the bronze medalist at last month's Vancouver Games, will skip next week's world championships in Turin, Italy. AP PHOTO |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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Maekawa joined the Giants in 1936 and helped contribute to their first championship win the same year. After World War II, Maekawa played for the 1946 Hankyu Braves. He was the oldest surviving former... |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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The Monday defection of Kunio Hatoyama from the Liberal Democratic Party has caused a stir in the former ruling party that for most of the postwar era was an electoral juggernaut. But experts and lawm... |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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The NFL said Monday the Giants will play on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 12, and the Jets will host a Monday night game the next day. The issue became somewhat contentious when the Jets announced on thei... |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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Experts say this case of initial dismissal is just the tip of the iceberg. Autopsies are performed for the most part only when police suspect foul play, and around 90 percent of "unnatural deaths" are... |
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